Nikola spends her days gathering firewood in a quiet village on Clayborne Island, content with her simple routine. The island itself sits at a crossroads of conflict, home to five warring nations squeezed into cramped space. Her peaceful existence shatters when a dragon, something that should only exist in distant mountains, descends on her village with violent intent. Before the creature can strike, Haga arrives to drive it back. He works for the King's Seekers, a clandestine organization tasked with investigating threats to the kingdom. His sudden appearance and the dragon's impossible presence trigger a cascade of questions Nikola never thought to ask about her world. Why would a dragon venture so far from the mountains? Why does Haga seem to know more than he's saying? What begins as a chance encounter pulls Nikola from her sheltered life into a larger mystery. She finds herself caught between the mundane and the extraordinary, forced to confront truths about the world she thought she understood completely. This is a story about how small moments crack open small lives, revealing something far bigger waiting beneath the surface.